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tirasse

tirasse noun: a pedal-coupler in organ-building.

Noun

tirasse (plural tirasses)

  1. (rare) A pedal-coupler in organ-building.
    • This way is not only more beautiful but more difficult, unless one is assisted by a Tirasse or Marche Pieds.1995, Fenner Douglass, The Language of the Classical French Organ, page 203
    • In early and middle-period instruments (through at least 1875), only the Grand Orgue, or possibly the Positif, was equipped with a Tirasse.2006, Douglas Earl Bush, The Organ: An Encyclopedia, page 569

Forms of tirasse

pluraltirasses

Questions about tirasse

What does tirasse mean?
Tirasse means a pedal-coupler in organ-building.
What part of speech is tirasse?
Tirasse is a noun.
What is the plural of tirasse?
The plural of tirasse is tirasses.

Words near tirasse in the dictionary

  1. Tirano
  2. Tiranë
  3. Tirap
  4. tirapazamine
  5. Tiraspol
  6. tirasse
  7. tirasses
  8. tiratricol
  9. Tiraturyan
  10. Tiraturyans
  11. tiraz

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